AB, if you and the tens of thousands who have been celebrating her passing carry on partying on Wednesday think of the boost to the economy that will be. Policemen will be paid overtime - and that money will come back into the economy; shopkeepers will have a heyday - especially booze shops; glaziers will make a fortune boarding-up and then repairing the plate-glass windows and so on and so forth. Oh, the irony!
Police overtime was welcomed during the miners' strike, the Police Officers sweat shirts had an ASPOM logo. (Arthur Scargill pays our mortgages - although, when questioned and soon to be in the mire over it, they said it stood for Avon and Somerset Police Operation Miner.)